Paulo (2023) Original Acrylic Painting by Grâce Pégéron

Paulo Coelho wrote The Alchemist in two weeks. Two weeks!

Hot pink, gold line, one continuous mark, acrylic because it dries before you can second-guess yourself, which felt exactly right for a man whose best ideas arrived before breakfast. I'm based in Occitanie, and so, in spirit, is Paulo. He once got lost in the mountains of Compostela on pilgrimage. He made a pact with them: "Let me write, and I'll return every year." He kept it. The Alchemist exists because of a promise made to a hillside.

That's why this portrait tilts slightly off-axis. Head in the stars, feet nowhere obvious. The face floats because his stories do too — impossible things that somehow land.

Part of my Celebrities of Occitanie Collection. Unique. Signed on the reverse. 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm.
The impossible made real.

Materials used:

Acrylic on canvas

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40 x 40 x 3.5cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Naive
• Subject: People and portraits